AWS DevOps & Security Engineer
Location: Hybrid in New York, NY
Salary: Up to $180,000 + Equity
Industry: GenAI / Automation
Who You’ll Join
This AI-native platform automates and accelerates complex processes like RFPs for 100+ paying customers across mid-market and enterprise sectors. Become a key technical leader in a company driving innovation and growth with global investor support.
What You’ll Do
- Maintain and evolve AWS architecture and core services with high availability and cost awareness
- Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Terraform or Pulumi with enforceable, auditable infra changes
- Design, harden, and run CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), incorporating build/test, artifact management, and safe deployments
- Implement shift-left security practices, including SAST/DAST, dependency/container scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code
- Support SOC 2 compliance by driving controls, evidence collection, alerting, and RBAC/least-privilege access
- Enhance system resilience with improved monitoring, logging, alerting, incident runbooks, and disaster recovery
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering and product teams to balance speed, security, and operational excellence
Who You Are
- 4+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability, or DevSecOps roles with strong AWS and cloud security expertise
- Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi) and configuration management (Ansible)
- Experienced in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCI) with deployment/versioning safety
- Security-focused with vulnerability management, image scanning (Trivy), secrets management, and least-privilege IAM
- Proficient with observability tools (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Sentry) and compliance frameworks (SOC 2)
- Strong scripting & automation abilities (Bash, Python) with clear, pragmatic technical documentation
Nice to Have
- Container orchestration (ECS/EKS), service mesh, zero-trust networking
- Policy-as-code (OPA, Conftest), RBAC/ABAC design, WAF experience
- Infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning
- Security knowledge for AI/LLM workloads including prompt hygiene and data egress controls
- Experience automating compliance evidence collection
Why You’ll Thrive
- Be a key security technical leader in a fast-growing startup pushing AI automation at scale
- Shape the architecture and security of AI-powered products trusted by over 100 customers
- Work within a tight-knit, autonomous engineering culture that values excellence, innovation, and empowerment
- Drive transformative advancements in Generative AI and enterprise automation security
- Enjoy a flexible hybrid work model and a competitive compensation package including equity
- Join a company on a high-growth trajectory with recent funding success and a new Manhattan office
